W. Germany Doubts Libya Plans Attack

September 2, 1986|By New York Times

BONN, WEST GERMANY — A senior adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Monday that there were no indications that Libya was plotting ''spectacular terrorist actions'' and cautioned that another American raid on Libya could ruin the chances for a Soviet-American summit meeting.

The warning came as Vernon Walters, the United States delegate to the United Nations, began a West European tour in Madrid in an apparent effort to win support for tougher sanctions against Col. Moammar Gadhafi's government.

In Madrid, Walters met for 70 minutes with Foreign Minister Francisco Fernandez-Ordonez. ''We discussed matters of common interest, including the struggle against terrorism throughout the world,'' Walters told journalists. ''I have not come to make demands.''

In Bonn, the aide to Kohl said consultations with major West European governments had produced the unanimous view that Gadhafi was not plotting any major terrorist action. ''He's always got a terrorist backdrop,'' the adviser said of the Libyan leader. ''But there is no sign he is planning spectacular terrorist actions.''

The aide said that three Arabs arrested last month in West Berlin had not been convincingly linked to Libyan terrorist efforts.